01. Thomas Yeakell and William Gardner Map of Brighthelmstone
(Brighton) published in Brighton in 1779.

02. a stereoscopic card of the Chain Pier

03. from Cooke, Cooke and Turner's book, Picturesque Views
on the Southern Coast of England, Arch, London 1826, Turner
draws for engraving by the Cook Brothers, the seashore of Brighton seen
from the Sea - with the Pavilion given a rather overemphasised role
on the front, with the old Chain Pier (now destroyed) advancing from
the right.

04 Brighton Sea Front from Thomas and William Daniell's A Voyage
Round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813
, "and commencing from the Land's End, Cornwall", 8 volumes,
1814 - 1825 and being 308 hand coloured aquatints.

left The PUNCH artist John Leech celebrates class conflict on Brighton
Beach on the Bank Holiday when Londoners took the opportunity to come
down to the sea for the day. "That awful swell Percy de Gosling
finds himself by accident at Brighton on Whit Monday. His nerves have
been terribly shocked already as he has been asked if he wanted any
Tea Accommodation; and now a boatman requests him to "Jine [Join]
this party, and make up the 'arf dozen for a row...."

right "August Bathing at Brighton" 1836 p.60
From George Cruikshank's Comic Almanack .

PAVILION BRIGHTON

01 from Humphrey Repton, Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton
, London

02. John Nash, The Royal Pavilion at Brighton, London
1826 or 1827.

03. James Leigh-Pemberton's painting for Shell-Mex and BP (oil companies)
celebratory book Royal Progress published in 1953 with
images of high finish and little subject impact. Here is the image of
George IV at the Royal Pavilion in c1820.